Cordless Trackman Marble FX on Ubuntu Jaunty
June 28th, 2009
Trackman Marble FX Cordless
My all-time-favorite mouse trackball is the Logitech Trackman Marble FX (Cordless). Logitech stopped making those a couple of years ago, but I’ve bought 5 of them and since the first one still works fine I’ll probably be using this model until USB is replaced with a new kind of port;)
The Trackman FX has 4 buttons and no dedicated scrollwheel. Before Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04) I was able to configure the buttons from /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but I upgraded from Ubuntu Hedgy (8.04) to Ubuntu Intrepid (8.10) all the way to Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04) and Ubuntu dropped the mouse-configuration from xorg.conf in favour of the HAL-device-manager.
